The federal government has committed funding across three years to better resource the Get Real program that has involved more than 2000 Dubbo College students in the past decade.

Each year teens have signed a voluntary pledge that commits them to full-time study, training or employment and in return are assisted in obtaining skills from a partnership of Dubbo businesses.

Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion made the funding announcement yesterday at the Dubbo plant of Fletchers International Exports, a business with a long involvement with the program.

Company director Roger Fletcher, one of the city's largest employers, had made an application for the funding some time ago, Mr Scullion said.

Mr Fletcher's son Farron Fletcher welcomed the minister's announcement, also attended by Parkes MP Mark Coulton.

Mr Coulton said the funding would enable some more staff to be allocated for mentoring those who signed the pledge.

"It's a hands-on, practical approach where there's a commitment not only from the students but the entire community to help these young people get through those difficult teenage years," he said.

Mr Scullion said Get Real fitted the government's principles and the expenditure would have a payback.

"As you know it's been a tight budget and that's why this government has focussed very much on the difference between what is a cost and what is an investment," he said.

"Quite clearly this is an investment.

". . . And I think it's an investment in the future and it's going to have a huge payback because people from here will be engaged in their first job and then they're away."

A group of 280 Dubbo College students signed the Get Real pledge in April, the latest of more than 2000 students who had made the commitment in the past nine years.